The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra’s commitment to artistic growth, new music, and the next generation of talent is on full display in this special program. In addition to Aaron Collins at the podium, the orchestra welcomes guest conductor Andrés Rivas, who will lead several works as part of Aaron’s ongoing effort to highlight and mentor emerging conductors—an initiative that reflects the SCSO’s belief in nurturing the future of the art form alongside celebrating its greatest traditions.

EPSG:4326

Audience Choice Concert

Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy - Upper School

Community Church of Vero Beach

The Portuguese clarinetist Sérgio Fernandes Pires, born in 1995, is one of the most promising and artistically active clarinetists of his generation. As a soloist, he has performed with well-known orchestras such as the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Argovia Philharmonic, the Orchestra Filarmonicii de Stat Transilvania, the Bremen Philharmonic and the Silesian Chamber Orchestra. Since 2019, Sérgio Pires has been teaching at the Minho University in Braga (Portugal), since 2023 at the Basel University of Music (Switzerland), and since 2024 he has been principal clarinetist of the London Symphonic Orchestra (Great Britain).

Time changes

CongressCentrum Pforzheim CCP

In this BIG year for your SCSO, we invite you to join us for our 15th Anniversary Gala, celebrating fifteen years of extraordinary music-making!  This powerful program features works by Tchaikovsky, Marquez, Marshall, along with a world premiere from SCSO favorite, Kevin Wilt.  The concert opens with Christopher Marshall’s Aue!, a work commissioned by the SCSO for our 10th Anniversary.  For three years, New Zealander Christopher Marshall lived in the idyllic surroundings of Samoa, and his piece conjures up its endlessly fascinating atmosphere and sounds, its hypnotic languor, and popular dances.  The SCSO’s commitment to new music is on full display when they present the world premiere of Kevin Wilt’s Imagined Adventures: March at the West River, a short and thrilling work based on childhood fantasies.  Composed in 2005, Marquez’s Conga del Fuego is a short fiery work bursting with color.  The program closes with a monumental masterwork and favorite of Aaron’s. From the staggering genius of Russia’s most famous Romantic comes a symphony charged with raw power and gorgeous melodies. With the foreboding opening theme of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, listeners are launched into a four-movement exploration of fate.  Selected youth musicians will perform side-by-side with their professional SCSO counterparts in this incredible program.

Christopher Marshall

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17 - 18 Jan, 2026

Audience Choice Concert · Space Coast Symphony Orchestra

Feb 2, 2025

Time changes · Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

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